Overview

I work on the accelerating and increasingly uncertain factors that are creating wicked and complex challenges for infrastructure in the future. See the Research section for an expanded description of my interests and projects. My writings on the topic can be found in the Publications section.

Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Graduate Faculty, School of Sustainability
Global Futures Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation
Affiliate Faculty, Global Security Initiative
Arizona State University

Director | Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering
Leader | Resilient Infrastructure Laboratory

Academic Positions

  • present 2022

    Professor

    Arizona State University,
    Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering

  • 2022 2017

    Associate Professor

    Arizona State University,
    Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering

  • 2020 2019

    Visiting Scholar (on Sabbatical)

    University of California Los Angeles,
    Institute of Transportation Studies, and,
    Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • 2017 2011

    Assistant Professor

    Arizona State University,
    Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering

  • 2011 2010

    Guest Researcher

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
    International Energy Studies Group

  • 2011 2008

    Post-doctoral Researcher

    University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Transportation Studies, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Education

  • Ph.D. 2008

    Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering

    University of California, Berkeley

  • M.S.2005

    M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering

    University of California, Berkeley

  • M.S.2003

    M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering

    Carnegie Mellon University

  • B.S.2005

    B.S., Civil Engineering with an additional major in Engineering & Public Policy

    Carnegie Mellon University

Honors, Distinctions, and Awards

  • 2024
    ClimateIQ Advisory Board
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    Advisory board member for The New School's Urban Systems Lab ClimateIQ project with Google.
  • 2023
    New York State Extreme Heat Action Plan
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    Expert panelist for the State of New York's Extreme Heat Action Plan.
  • 2023
    National Academies Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment
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    Committee member for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment.
  • 2023
    National Academies Committee on Communities, Climate Change, and Health Equity
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    Committee member for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's report and workshop on Communities, Climate Change, and Health Equity – Lessons Learned in Addressing Inequities in Heat-Related Climate Change Impacts.
  • 2023
    Co-author on the U.S. Fifth National Climate Assessment
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    Co-author on the U.S. Global Change Research Program's Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) Transportation chapter.
  • 2022
    Contributing author on the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6)
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    Contributing author on the chapter on Cities, Settlements, and Key Infrastructure.
  • 2022
    ASU Knowledge Exchange for Resilience Fellow
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    The Knowledge Exchange for Resilience is committed to solving our most perplexing problems through use-inspired research that builds community resilience.
  • 2021
    Reuter's Hot List of World's Top Climate Scientists
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    Ranked as number 402 on Reuter's Hot List of World's Top Climate Scientists. Ranking based on number of publications, citation ratio, and Altmetric Attention Score (reach).
  • 2021
    ASU Outstanding Faculty Mentor
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    Nominated by graduate students and recognized by ASU's Graduate College as an outstanding faculty mentor.
  • 2019
    Stanford METRICS Center Top 1000 Scientists Ranking
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    Ranked number 798 of 66,925 scientists in the environmental sciences field for 2019. Ranking considers citations, h-index, coauthorship-adjusted hm-index, and citations to papers in different authorship positions.
  • 2018
    National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering
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    One of approximately 80 people selected for the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering symposium at MIT Lincoln Labs in September 2018.
  • 2017
    American Society of Civil Engineer's Huber Award
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    Awarded a Huber Research Prize for my work in life cycle assessment and infrastructure resilience to extreme events.
  • 2017
    ASU Engineering Fulton Exemplar Faculty
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    Awarded ASU Engineering's Fulton Exemplar Faculty for research productivity, instructional load, student evaluations and doctoral student mentoring.
  • 2016
    Environmental Research Letters 10th Anniversary Special Collection
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    Publication Environmental Assessment of Passenger Transportation Should Include Infrastructure and Supply Chains selected to Environmental Research Letter’s 10th Anniversary Collection as one of the top 3 articles of 2009.
  • 2015
    ASU Engineering Top 5% Teaching Award
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    Top 5% Teaching Award from Arizona State University's College of Engineering for 2015.
  • 2013
    National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering Education
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    One of 73 people in the US selected for the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Education workshop in Irvine, CA in October 2013.
  • 2013
    ASU Departmental Teaching Award
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    Teaching Award from Arizona State University's School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment for 2013.
  • 2012
    Expert Testimony to the California Legislative Analyst's Office on High-speed Rail
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    Testified to the California Legislative Analyst’s Office on the environmental impacts of high-speed rail in April 2012.
  • 2011
    Environmental Research Letters 5th Anniversary Collection
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    Publication Environmental Assessment of Passenger Transportation Should Include Infrastructure and Supply Chains selected to Environmental Research Letter’s 2011 5th Anniversary Collection as one of the top 3 articles of 2009.
  • 2010
    National Research Council’s Hidden Cost of Energy Study
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    Participated (as a researcher and chapter author) on the National Research Council’s Committee on Health, Environmental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of Energy Production and Consumption in the preparation of the Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use 2010 report.
  • 2007
    Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor at the University of California, Berkeley
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    Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor awarded by the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate Council for the 2006-2007 academic year.
  • 2001
    Stephen Omar Lee Course Project Award at Carnegie Mellon University
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    Participant in the Carnegie Mellon University's Engineering and Public Policy course project Voting System Transitions: What are the Options for Pennsylvania? which received the Stephen Omer Lee Award as the outstanding project course in 2001.
  • 2000
    Stephen Omar Lee Course Project Award at Carnegie Mellon University
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    Participant in the Carnegie Mellon University's Engineering and Public Policy course project Environmental Impacts of E-commerce - A Case Study of Book Purchasing which received the Stephen Omer Lee Award as the outstanding project course in 2000.